Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10212] IP Address appears in place of friendly MAC address
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 03:00:43 +0000

changed bug 10212


What Removed Added
Status CONFIRMED IN_PROGRESS

Comment # 5 on bug 10212 from 
(In reply to João Valverde from comment #3)
> This is by design, because of ARP, like Guy said. It is a misfeature IMO.

No, it's a bug.  add_ether_byip() *should* only add the name if the IP address
resolves to a name; it shouldn't do so if it couldn't be resolved to a name so
that the "name" is just an IP address.

I'm working on a fix, wherein each entry has a flag indicating whether it
includes a real host name, and add_ether_byip() checks that flag and adds the
new MAC-address-to-name entry only if that flag is set.

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